What are you reading right now?

[Calgary Flames]

I bought The Bourne Identity, I loved the two movies and little did I know; The books have a totally different storyline! Good stuff.

[snowdude]

Aside from the mountian of readings i have for classes i'm reading

BEAUTY TIPS FROM MOOSE JAW by Will Ferguson....its his newest and as most of his books are is pretty funny

[RougeUnderoos]

A Prayer for Owen Meany. It's only the second book of John Irving's that I've read but after reading Garp and the first 150 odd pages of this, I've come to the conclusion that he is the King.

[kipperfan]

Slaughterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut

Man I love this book!!

[peter12]

I just finished "The Fall of Berlin" by Antony Beever. It's a really good book focussing on the end of the European theatre of WW2.

I just started the Shane MacGowan biography which promises to be good.

[Captain Sensible]

Originally posted by RougeUnderoos@Oct 23 2004, 05:44 PM
A Prayer for Owen Meany. It's only the second book of John Irving's that I've read but after reading Garp and the first 150 odd pages of this, I've come to the conclusion that he is the King.

Right on, I read Owen Meany this summer!

It's an incredibly good book, I absolutely loved it.

[kermitology]

Good work peter12.. Antony Beevor is amazing..

I'm reading Empires on the Pacific by Robert Smith Thompson, very good account of the Pacific War in WW2

[Weiser Wonder]

The Common Good. It's an interview of Noam Chomsky.

[Lanny_MacDonald]

The Future of Freedom - Fareed Zakaria.

A difficult but brilliant need.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally posted by Captain Sensible+Oct 23 2004, 12:02 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Captain Sensible @ Oct 23 2004, 12:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-RougeUnderoos@Oct 23 2004, 05:44 PM
A Prayer for Owen Meany. It's only the second book of John Irving's that I've read but after reading Garp and the first 150 odd pages of this, I've come to the conclusion that he is the King.

Right on, I read Owen Meany this summer!

It's an incredibly good book, I absolutely loved it. [/b][/quote]
Yeah, it's great so far.

Didja know there is a movie? It's called "Simon Birch". I haven't seen it, but it seems to be an adaptation or a "based on" kind of thing. Irving's name is tied to it, but all the names of the characters are changed. Jim Carrey and Ashley Judd were in it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124879/

[Cowperson]

"Saturn" by Ben Bova and "And Be A Villian," a Nero Wolfe mystery by Rex Stout. And leafing through a new collection of Frank Sinatra photo's I bought yesterday.

Cowperson

[jam26]

The Four Fires by Bryce Courtenay...he's a great author.

[lucid]

As we speak:
On the Interpretation of Terrorist Violence: ETA and the Basque Political
Process
and a number of other things along the same lines.
Not my first choice... trust me. But it's still interesting!

Currently set aside until Christmas break: "The Brothers Kharamazov" by Dostoyevsky (parts I and II)

[Savvy27]

Just finished America: The Book by Jon Stewart and the daily show writers. It was pretty good.

Currently about 1100 pages into Les Miserables, which is an incredible, even if at some times tedious, book.

[BlackArcher101]

Currently reading 2 books

Tom Clancy - Executive Orders
Photoshop for Digital Photography

[troutman]

The Naked Olympics: the True Story of the Ancient Games
by Tony Perrottet (Author)

“A vivid evocation of the blood and guts, not to mention sheer guts, that marked the original Olympic Games more than two thousand years ago. Tony Perrottet tells the gripping story of a festival of physical attainment during which athletes risked and sometimes lost their lives. Today's champions have it easy.” —Anthony Everitt, author of Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician

“This is the book to read if you want to know what it felt like to be a spectator or a contestant at the ancient Olympic Games. Perrottet brings the scene to life in all its pageantry and squalor, with its beautiful bodies, rotting meat, flies, and broiling heat. Then, as now, the Games brought out the best and the worst of human potential, and blood, sweat, tears, sex, and money were all part of the Olympic experience, along with religion, bribery and politics.
—Mary Lefkowitz, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College and author of Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths

[Reaper]

Tropic of Hockey by Dave Bidini

The author is the guitar player for the Rheostatics.

In 1998 he realized he was getting disenchanted with the NHL so he went on a global trip to China, The United Arab Emirates, etc. to search out hockey in unlikely places.

He played with people from all over the world in rinks where you wouldn't think they'd exist.

Great book so far.

[flamingchina]

Just bought that jonathan strange and Dr. Norrell book, might start it soon.
Also need to buy System of the World by Neal Stephenson (part three of the Baroque cycle)

[Super-Rye]

I'm not reading anything, outside of the Maddox and Tucker Max articles, however, I am writing a novel of my own.

[Mike__]

I just finished reading The Bleachers by John Grisham. Very easy to read, I finished in about a day and a half and it was a great book to read on those boring sunday afternoons. It wasn't like any book I've read before, then again I don't read novels on a regular basis.